to wish exDH's GF would stop diagnosing my kids?

DD has a verruca, this I know to be fact thanks to our GP and not Dr Google. She has spent the weekend telling DD that it isnt a verruca, its a wart.

Now please do correct me if I am wrong, but I understood a verruca to be caused by the same virus as a wart and is simply impacted due to the pressure on the foot? Now DD keeps asking if she can go back to the doctors to check whether it is a wart or a verruca and if thats why the treatment isnt working (it isnt "working" because we have only been using it for a week, by working she means that the whole thing hasnt disappeared). It took an hour on google tonight to convince her.

I wouldnt mind quit so much but the GF is a nurse, as they keep telling me as if her word is gospel , so should know better!

FYI, no beef with her, she seems very nice and kind to the kids which is the best you can ask for really. I just wish she would stop dispensing her medical "knowledge" to the kids!

It makes no odds whether it's a verruca or a wart, the treatment is the same anyway! And as has been said, verruca is just another name for plantar wart, they're both caused by a virus, the only possible difference would be that you are supposed to be able to see the black centre in a verruca (the deep root into the blood vessels) which you don't commonly see in a wart (I've had both) - but even that's not cut and dried. I had a massive verruca on the ball of one foot, which wasn't diagnosed for a couple of years, until it matured and multiplied. When the top layer of hard skin came off, there were the black centres - 6 of them!

What are you using on it? I found something called Salactol to be brilliant - a mix of salicylic and lactic acid, not sure if it's still available but it works a sight better than Bazuka or prep W, from what I can tell. But then maybe my matured-and-replicated verruca/wart was just ready to go, who knows. It and all its offspring were removed within 3 weeks of daily application with pumicing before reapplication, the little ones all went within a week and the big parent took just over 2 weeks to fall out (came out with the plaster on the last day).

We live in Canada and dd had a set of really persistent verrucas (several years without disappearing). When we went to the pharmacist they had no idea what we were talking about! Verruca is not used here only planar wart (although some of the treatments had names that were plays on verruca).

We used a strong salicylic acid treatment, painted on like nail varnish plus duct tape. Did the job nicely, all gone in about 10 days.

YANBU She's being an arse! I work in A and E and I had a patient come in with a verruca, most people in UK call it a verruca why be a dick and call it by its correct medical terminology especially to a 9 year old.

I think the nurse is just trying to come across as clever. It's annoying because in a way it's undermining you even though you're right.I have the same problem with my sil, she's a doctor and always always always contradicts what I've been told by my doctor. She has never been right but my doctor has.Just try to ignore the gf and her silly games. Possibly tell your dd that you spoke to your doctor and he remembers seeing her and he said that it's a verruca which is the same thing. That should do it!

owl yes a verruca however, he was very pleasant and apologetic when I told him it wasn't anything other than a verruca. Plus he'd had a shower before coming up so his feet didn't smell so he didn't get the full wrath of my 'it is not appropriate to attend a busy A and E blah blah'

I had someone come in with athletes foot 2 weeks prior to that!! 111 has a lot to answer for I can tell ya